Israel hogeland



(No Model.)

I. HOGELAND.

APPARATUS FOR PORMNe AND DRYINe BARRELS.

No. 348,906. Patented Sept. 7, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISRAEL HOGELAND, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE P. ANDERSON, OF SAME PLACE.

APPARATUS FOR FORMING AND DRYING BARRELS.

SFECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 348,906, dated September 7, 1886.

Serial No.173,9-23. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IsRAEL HooELANn, of the city ofIndiauapolis,county of l\[arion,aud State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Drying and Forming Staves and Heading, of which the 'following` is a specification.

My present invention consists in an improved construction of apparatus for shaping 1o and drying staves for wood or such like receptacles, (particularly the stavesr for onestave buckets,) and also the blanks for the bottoms and covers or heads thereof, by the use of which they are quickly and accurately formed, as will be hereinafter more particularly described.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof, and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts,

2c Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical sectional View, looking upwardly from the dotted line l l in Fig. 2; and Fig. 2 isaview partlyin horizontal section, as seen when looking downwardly from the dotted line 2 2 in Fig. l.

In said drawings, the portions marked A represent the supporting frame-work of the apparatus; B, ahollow form or mold; l, hoops for securing the material around said form; O, said material; D, an inclosing-casing surroundingl the forms, and E pipes communicating with and connecting the apparatus. rlhe supporting-frame A is of any suitable construction, preferablyin the form of a bench of a convenient height, as shown. The form B 3,5 is simply a hollow cylinder formed with inelined sides, and generally of substantially the shape of the receptacle to be produced. It is preferably formed iucloscd at both top and bottom, thus forming an air or steam tight 4o chamber in its interior. It is mounted in proper position ou the frame, and has two holes or openings in its bottom, one for the admission and one for the escape of steam or air, as will be presently described. rlhehoops 5 B are any suitable hoops ofa size a little larger than the form B, and are adapted to be forced down around said form after the material has been placed in position thereon, and clamp it in said position, conforming it to said form.

5o rlhe material Gis preferably wood, and is generally eut in the form of thick veneer.

the left of the drawings two round forms are shown for drying and shaping the blanks for the body of the bucket, and at the right are two square ones for drying and shaping blanks out of which the bottoms or tops may be ent. Ihe casing D is considerably larger than the form, leaving an air-space between them. It

is simply in form an inverted box, provided with a slide-valve, d, in its top for the escape 6o, of the products of evaporation during the process of drying. The pipes E are simply steam or hot-air pipes, leading from a boiler or furnace (not shown) to the interior of the forms j, and connecting theseveral forms, when several are arranged in the same apparatus, as shown in the drawings.

The operation of my invention is as follows: The material being cut into pieces of the required size and shape to form the staves of the 7o desired shape and size, such pieces are placed around the round forms B, after being steamed or while yet damp, and securely clamped and conformed thereto by pressing down the hoops B around them. The blanks for the bottoms and tops are also clamped to the square forms, one on each side thereof, in the same manner. The casings D are then put in place, and the steam or hot airintroduced through the pipes E into the forms B, it passing from one to the So other, and finally out through the escape-'pipe E', as will be readily understood, a stop-cock,

e, being provided in said end to control the escape, as desired. rlhe form is thus kept hot, which also heats the space between it andthe 8 5 casing D, thus operating to quickly dry the material on said form, and set it in substantially the desired shape. The blanks of course shrink during the process of drying, and care should be taken netto force the hoops 9o on tightly enough to cause them to split.

Having thus fully described my saidinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Iatent, is-

1. In an apparatus for drying and forming blanks for use in the manufacture of wooden receptacles, the combin ation of a hollow form,

a casing inclosing said hollow form, hoops for securing the blanks to the hollow form, and pipes communicating with the interior of said rco form, substantially as set forth.

2. An apparatus for drying and forming blanks used in the manufacture of wooden re- In witness whereof I have hereunto set ceptacles, consisting, essentially, of hollow luy hand and seal, ab Indianapolis, Indiana, ro forms or molds of substantially the general this 5th day of August, A. D. 1885.

shape of the receptacle to be produced, means 0f securing the blanks to said molds, a wall ISRAEL HOGELAND [L S iuclosing said molds, and pipes coinmunicatl Vituesses: ing with the interior of said molds, substaul C. BRADFORD,

tially as and for the purposes seb forth.

CHARLEs L. THURBER. 

